Harry Sword
, May 11th, 2021 10:31
Long-time producer and manager of The Master Musicians Of Joujouka, Frank Rynne, talks to Harry Sword about the challenges of recording their powerful new album, Live In Paris. Home page photograph by Herman Vanaershot
The Master Musicians of Joujouka in their village by Maki Kita The Masters started playing, slowly got into their vibe and built up and up , says Frank Rynne, long-time manager and producer of The Master Musicians Of Joujouka, describing the wild energy captured on the recently released
Live In Paris double album. They did three sets: the first was flutes and the drums; the second violin, drums and vocals; the third a full on performance of the
Best of travel: Why Toronto beats New York for a city break
Toronto is great for a city break (Getty Images)
To tide us over until we’re able to travel again, we’re republishing classic travel stories from our archives. Today we revisit Siobhan Grogan’s trip to the premier North American city break destination: Toronto.
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As the cab from the airport inched forward in nose to tail traffic towards the distinctive skyline in the distance, I already knew I was going to be charmed by Toronto. While beaches and mountains are all very well, I’m a city girl at heart and the lure of late night shopping, museums and a decent wine list means I’m always on the hunt for my next city fix.
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Bisk, aka Tokyoâs Naohiro Fujikawa, has been chrome-plating chaos for a quarter century, turning out records that are absurd and exhilarating in equal measure. A Bisk song rarely follows a straight line for long: The Japanese producerâs drum programming weaves through knotty thickets of syncopated beats and white-noise bursts, chasing ghosts and dodging potholes. His samples are fragmentary dispatches from far-flung points, and any given musical phrase might shoehorn multiple worlds into wobbly unionâfree improv with easy listening, kindergarten recess with NASA Mission Control. Beneath each drum hit lies a potential trap door, and his melodies, if thatâs what you can call his tangled scraps of electric bass and modal keys, ricochet like pinballs repelled at every turn by shuddering mechanical bumpers. Biskâs productions give the impression of someone who is both addicted to repetition and allergic to it.
Singer-songwriter-player-of-many-instruments Dinty Child has a new single out. “Incident at the Border” tells the true tale of a musician, a waywardly tossed Frisbee, and a resulting broken window at the Border Café in Harvard Square. It was recorded by Child and some friends in 2018 as part of a batch of 17 songs, 11 of which ended up on his 2020 album “Lucky Ones.” But it didn’t make the final cut, and is now seeing the light of day by its lonesome.
Child has carved out a colorful career on the local music scene since getting his first guitar about a half-century ago while growing up in Sudbury. He’s one of the six lead singers and five writers in the rocky-rootsy-folky Session Americana; he’s a member in good standing of the Chandler Travis Philharmonic; he’s an on-call player for any number of Boston bands, a sometime solo artist, former member of the Catbirds, and he regularly took part in the Sub Rosa shows at Lizard Lounge.